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Article: New guard, New York Times.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 7, 1986
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New Guard, New York Times
WE DO NOT disguise that beyond the reach of memory, we at NATIONAL REVIEW have used the New York Times as our very favorite pincushion. Much of this, the paper has earned, particularly in its editorial pages, where, especially under the leadership of an editor providentially retired several years ago, the Times was militantly, not to say disreputably, tone-deaf, showing an enthusiasm for such disparate calamities as Fidel Castro and John Lindsay.
But the New York Times even then was a very great newspaper, with a profound sense of its responsibility to cover the news, even if the temptation, often, was to do so tendentiously, as ...